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NEWS – Remember the WII? It used your body movements to interact with their games using controllers. The Nex Playground is similar, only you don’t have to use controllers to interact with the Nex Playground games, so it’s more like the Xbox Kinect. All you need is your body. The Nex Playground is a device […]

NEWS – Anyone who’s into role-playing has heard about Critical Role, the professional voice actors who live-streamed D&D sessions.  Matt Mercer, the group’s front man, has created an alternative RPG titled DaggerHeart.  It’s still in a fantasy setting, but its goal is to simplify the rules and focus more on storytelling.  It adds two mechanics

NEWS – I always thought it was cool how it was possible to throw a playing card so powerfully and precisely that it would stick in something like fruit or wood. Then I spied these ultimate throwing cards on coolthings.com, which takes throwing cards to a whole new level. They’re called Throwing Death Cards. There

NEWS – Game night will never be the same again with the P’kup. What is it? It’s a portable card lifter that uses suction to pick up to 50 cards at a time. We’ve all struggled with picking up playing cards in the center of a table. Scratching at the edges, trying to get under

NEWS – A couple of days ago, I posted about a miniature Atari 2600 console, and today, I have another retro toy. This time, it’s from the 80s. It’s a miniature Rubik’s cube style puzzle. The original Rubik’s cube was popular in the early 80s when I was a teenager. I remember buying one and

NEWS – When I was a kid, I relentlessly begged my dad for an Atari 2600. I ended up getting the Sears version because he worked there part-time and got a discount. I wore that thing out playing breakout, pong, and missle command. I remember going to bed at night and still seeing the graphics

NEWS – Tired of playing games on your phone? Then grab a Paper Apps DUNGEON Notebook, a pencil, dice, and you have all you need for some good old analog gaming fun! This little notebook is a single-player dungeon-crawler adventure game in your pocket. Each page is a different game that doesn’t require batteries, doesn’t

NEWS – I posted earlier today about edible birthday candles, and now I have a quick news post about another birthday-related product. This time, it’s a deck of Bicycle playing cards that help celebrate everyone’s favorite feathered grump – Donald Duck, who is celebrating his 90th birthday this year. This standard deck of playing cards

NEWS – For a little over a year, our family has enjoyed a great word game, unlike many that are played today. Why is it different? Well, it is not an online game, and it is not a board game*, and it is for people of different spelling skill levels, but not everyone has to

NEWS – University Games has been developing and selling board games, puzzles, interactive books, and educational toys for almost 40 years. They created the Colorforms Vinyl activity books, which I played with as a child in the early 80’s. The Night Hunter and Faeries & Magical Creatures are two new games by this venerable publisher.

NEWS – Spend hours with all the golden gaming greats with this Retro-Inspired Game Console, packing over 600 home arcade classics, now on sale for just $24.99. If you’re of a certain age, then you probably have fond memories of firing up your Nintendo NES and blissing out to hours of Mario Bros., Street Fighter,